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J. WALANE. WATER PROOF MATERIAL FOR COATS.

No. 405,421. Patented June 18, 1889,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES \V. LANE, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

WATER-PROOF MATERIAL FOR COATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,421, dated June 18, 1889.

Application filed December 15, 1888. Serial No. 293,723. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern- Be it known that I, JAMES \V. LANE, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York city, county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved ater-Proof Material for Coats and other Articles of Clothlng or Furnishing, of which the following is a specification.

My improved material is especially adapted for those articles of clothing which it is desirable to make impervious to water and other liquids; and the object of my invention is to provide a material which, at the same time that it is impervious to water and other liquids, will be light, strong, flexible, and durable, and will be capable of production in all the variety f designs embodying raised effects.

My improved material consists of a woven fabric, the character and structure of which will be hereinafter explained, to which a thin coating of rubber is applied, making the material water-proof. Hitherto in making rubber-coated goods the cloth or fabric to which the rubber has been applied has always been a smooth plane cloth or fabric-that is, one in which both surfaces were smooth and level: the surface to which the rubber was applied, and the other surface which formed the outside or proper side of the garment. This was considered to benecessary as the rubber could be properly and evenly applied only to a smooth-faced cloth. This cloth or fabric had to be made of a certain thickness or weight, and could not be made of a lighter weight for the reason that it was necessary to allow for the rotting action of the sulphur in the rub her, and the fabric had to be thick or weighty enough to retain sufficient body and strength after a portion of it had been thus affected by the sulphur of the rubber. The fabric was of course of uniform thickness throughout; hence such goods could not be made in very light weights.

One object of my invention is to enable such goods to be made in lighter weights, at the same time retaining the requisite degree of strength.

The design or ornamentation of these rubber goods was generally produced by printing in any ordinary Way upon the uncoated side of the cloth to which the rubber was applied. This printing could of course be done before the cloth was'coated with the rubber. Sometimes these designs were produced by the weaving itself, the surfaces of the cloth being always woven plane or smooth. The designs which could be employed in this class of goods were therefore limited to printed or plane woven designs.

Another object of my invention is to do away with this limitation and to produce .in such goods what are known as raised designs or effects.

My invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, and in which Figure 1 is a face view of my improved material, and Fig. 2 a section on the line a: a of Fig.1.

Similar letters in the two figures indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A and B represent the two parts of my improved material.

A is a woven cloth or fabric. This cloth is woven in such a way that one surface a is smooth and even, while the other surface I) has raised parts or figures 0. These parts or figures c are thrown up or raised in the weaving and as a result of the manner in which the warp and weft threads are thrown 01' manipulated. It willbe unnecessary for me to explain how this fabric must be woven in order to produce one smooth surface and one surface with a raised effect. The method of weaving does not differ in any respect from old and well-known methods, and any one skilled in the art of weaving or of cutting cards will readily understand how this can be done. This method of weaving forms no part of my invention. This particular form and distribution of these raised parts or figures will depend upon and be controlled by the design to be worked into the fabric. Thus any design or raised efiect capable of being embodied in woven goods can be made or re-' produced in my improved material. When the fabric A has been thus woven in suitable length and width, a coating of rubber B is applied in any suitable manner to the smooth surface of the fabric, and my improved material is then completed. Before applying the rubber coating it is advisable to singe the smooth surface of the fabric A, so as to remove any nap that there may be on that surface, and thus to prepare it for the more ready adhesion of the rubber coating. The rubber coating can be as easily and thoroughly applied to this fabric in the Way mentioned as to any plane cloth or fabric that has been used heretofore for this purpose.

My preferred form of material is one in which the fabric A is woven of plain black threads, and the surface with the raised parts or figures is then calendered, so as to give a polished or glossy appearance to these raised parts or figures and the rubber coating is then applied. This is an example of one of the many finer effects which have neverbeen produced heretofore in this class of goods, but which my invention makes possible.

My improved material does away with the necessityof printing the fabric, and thus secures economyin the process of manufacture. It is superior to the rubber goods formerly used in that it produces an entirely new and higher order of'designs in such goods.

My improved material is also stronger and more durable than the rubber-coated goods heretofore made of the same weight, and hence it can be made in lighter Weights than have heretofore been made in this class of goods. When a plane fabric is coated with rubber, the entire fabric has to be made of sufficient thickness to Withstand the rotting action of the sulphur in the rubber. In my improved material the raised parts or figures are of such a thickness as not to be materially affected or impaired in strength by the action ofv the sulphur, and act as ribs to hold the different parts of the fabric together and prevent its tearing. The intervening parts of the fabric may, however, be made very thin and light, thus largely reducing the weight of the entire fabric, and yet without materially affecting or decreasing the strength of the whole. My improved material is stronger than material of the same Weight made as formerly, or is lighter than material of the same strength made as formerly.

WV hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An improved material for articles of clothing, consisting of a textile fabric having raised figures or ribs on one side and a smooth surface on the other side and a coating of rubber on the smooth side, substantially as set forth.

2. An improved material for articles of clothing, consisting of a textile fabric having raised figures or ribs on one side intersecting one another and a smooth surface on the other side and a coating of rubber on the smooth side, substantially as set forth.

' JAMES \V. LANE.

\Vitn esses: ROBERT N. KENYON, EDWIN SEGER. 

